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Dom · Last edited by Dom on Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:54 pm; edited 1 time in total

This encryption is of a popular computer game.

0100000101000111010001010010000001001111
0100011000100000010011010101100101010100
0100100001001111010011000100111101000111
01011001

You should read the 4 lines as 1 big line. I had to break them up as it made the message body screen too big.

I don't think it will take you very long to get this one!

Joshua · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

Is it encrypted in capital or small case letters?

Dom · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:48 pm Post subject:

Joshua · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

Well it can't read from left to right because capital letters start with 1...hmmm...

Dom · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:54 pm Post subject:

Joshua · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, well for example: A = 1000001 and Z = 1011010

Dom · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject:

Joshua · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:49 pm Post subject:

I always thought that 8 digits were used for certain numbers.

Anyway, my book says that each capital letter is 7 digits.

Dom · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:02 am Post subject:

If you drop the leading zero then yes they all begin with 1.

Now stop arguing with me.

Joshua · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:11 am Post subject:

I'm not trying to argue with you, mate. I'm just saying what the book says.

Anyway, the answer to the Encryption is Age of Mythology.

Daniel · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

The lettes are 8 bits, if your book only lists 7 then it is dropping the leading 0's as Manxdom said.

I haven't checked what you have put, but it could well be correct.

Joshua · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 7:28 am Post subject:

Yeah, it probably did. 8 digits is in fact correct (obviously). I found that on the internet just recently.

Dom · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:35 am Post subject:

Joshua · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:21 am Post subject:

How can that be?? hmm...

Daniel · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 5:58 am Post subject:

Actually your book could well talk about 7 bit ascii codes.

I had forgotten something, sometimes back in the 80's things were made to use 7 bit ascii to save space. Since all the main letters and stuff come in the first 7 bits of the ascii set.

An example of something which uses 7 bit ascii.

Every email you send, regardless of whether it is HTML or PLAIN TEXT and every attachment be it a binary picture or program, they all get encoded into 7 bit ascii before they are sent.

This is due to the old nature of SMTP.